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AUGUST PLUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does August plum mean?
• AUGUST PLUM (noun)
The noun AUGUST PLUM has 1 sense:
1. wild plum trees of eastern and central North America having red-orange fruit with yellow flesh
Familiarity information: AUGUST PLUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wild plum trees of eastern and central North America having red-orange fruit with yellow flesh
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
American red plum; August plum; goose plum; Prunus americana
Hypernyms ("August plum" is a kind of...):
wild plum; wild plum tree (an uncultivated plum tree or shrub)
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